📸 Jan Bakelants

just to illustrate how completely serious a sport this is, the uci just fined isaac del toro 200 chf for “damaging the image of the sport” for - wait for it - celebrating his milano-torino win with his jersey fully unzipped

i now have a top 3 podium pictures of all time btw

how it feels to love sport even when it hurts me because the act of participating in and watching sports is one of the most purely human acts of collective emotion you can experience, wether you win or lose, in that moment you, the athlete, the team, every fan, in the room, in the stands, across the world, is cheering together, crying together, winning together, losing together, and its more beautiful and perfect and frustrating and heartbreaking than a tv show or movie could ever be because its real its real and next season can always be different so you'll always come back and we keep always coming back for the rest of human existence

Seeing a pro be so in disbelief over having won such a big race really reminds you that they too used to be kids dreaming of making it one day, and mattias fucking did! he beat THE world champion and olympic champion !

I cannot wait to see how his season turns out the rest of the year.

Mattias Skjelmose, Amstel Gold Race 2025

a softer world peloton (3/?)

-Logan DNF because he felt ill

-Esties threw up by lap 15

-Lance stumbled to the ambulance after getting out of the car

-Max and Oscar couldn't even stand

-George had to take his hands off the wheel, opened his visor for air in pit

-Alex couldn't get out of his car for 2 minutes and needed assistance

-Fernando complained about his seat was too hot

-Kevin Magnussen requesting to have the 'leaf blowers' directed at him by the Haas mechanics

-Bottas said it was “torture” and on the limit of being acceptable to race in

-Yuki tried opening his visor to get more air in, only for sand to blow in

BAN THIS GP

Saitama Criterium 2024 - Culture exchange program (aikido)

Something i find so fascinating about sports is when a guy is like my dad was actually legit abusive but it made me the player i am today so i really respect his decision to abuse me. Like well ok do u want to talk abt anything

Lmfao